As Deaton continued to instruct the mother, the woman cried, “she’s closing her eyes ma’am, she’s closing her eyes!”

After a little over two and a half minutes, the baby can finally be heard crying over the phone. The object, a small metal ball belonging to the woman’s older child, came out of the baby’s throat, freeing the airway and allowing the baby to breathe again.

Major Andy Warrick, the deputy chief administrator for the Middletown Police Department, told ABC News that there could begin to be damage to a person if they go four minutes without oxygen. In a case like this, it's hard to know exactly how much time had truly elapsed since the object got lodged in the throat.

Deaton reassured the mother that help was still on the way to examine the baby, but that as long as she's crying and breathing, she would be all right.

“OK, I’m gonna let you go. You did a great job,” Deaton told the mother when police arrived.

This was Deaton's first time handling a call of such urgency, she told ABC News.

Dispatchers typically do not get to know the outcomes of the calls they answer because the calls end once emergency responders arrive on the scene, Deaton told ABC News.

“Hearing that baby cry was a huge relief,” she added.

“People are calling me a hero and I don’t see that. I truly was just doing my job,” Deaton said.

The mother declined to comment to ABC News on the incident, but did say that her daughter is “OK and happy as usual.”